nwah1

71 ms·

811.
by nwah1 8y ago
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania adopted a split-rate property tax system which penalized land more heavily than improvements. They saw improvements across the board, including in terms of crime rates, the rates of fire, etc. https://blo
812.
by nwah1 8y ago
The benefit of open source is that it is verifiable by peer review. I would take an open source and peer reviewed voting system that was originated by the NSA and CIA and every other spook organization over one that was closed-source and ha
813.
by nwah1 8y ago
I agree that it is an arrogant action, but the cost-benefit analysis doesnt add up. North Korea just isn't that important. Seems to be connected to a top DPRK diplomat who is involved in the Trump meetings, but roughing up an embassy d
814.
by nwah1 8y ago
How does this compare to decoders written in Rust? From a security standpoint, rust decoders may have an edge. https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/image-png
815.
by nwah1 8y ago
Developers think of microservices this way, now. Managers still think of it as exciting.
816.
by nwah1 8y ago
Billionaires are not by any means a random sample of humanity, particularly for the self-made billionaires. They are among the most insanely ambitious or the most insanely risk-loving. This makes them go to much greater lengths to protect t
817.
by nwah1 8y ago
This is entirely from an engineer's perspective. The reason agile and scrum are so popular is because it works for managers. Managers need to herd all the cats, keep them on task, and give them continuous deadlines to report status in
818.
by nwah1 8y ago
The data involving lithium has generally involved localized effects. You're talking about the general trends. And freakonomics didn't by any means solve the question of the general trends. Here's a decent vox article that exp
819.
by nwah1 8y ago
Could file a FOIA and find out.
820.
by nwah1 8y ago
The first attempt at this ended in failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler_diet
821.
by nwah1 8y ago
Yes, but you have to download it.
822.
by nwah1 8y ago
I've been a colemak user for a number of years, which has similar pros and cons. I would say that it is not worth it for most people to change. You could get a lot of the benefit of colemak, with none of the pain, by converting your ca
823.
by nwah1 8y ago
Was unable to get my Jabra Elite 65t to connect to my Surface Book at work. Glad to know it wasn't any fault of my own. Will avoid Jabra in the future.
824.
by nwah1 8y ago
Yes, I accept your correction. I accept that the Saharan desert may be greening primarily for other reasons. It seems to have been on a long term trend towards greening irrespective of the Industrial Revolution, and there are other human ac
825.
by nwah1 8y ago
>Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70% of the observed greening trend, followed by nitrogen deposition (9%), climate change (8%) and land cover change (LCC) (4%).
826.
by nwah1 8y ago
What do you mean by mitigate global warming? I think what they argue is that there will be winners and losers, and it isn't some kind of black and white issue. For instance, the Saharan desert seems to be greening.
827.
by nwah1 8y ago
Makes sense, considering that most of the plants we have already match that description.
828.
by nwah1 8y ago
A number of problems with this method of study, and the headline is misleading. The real question is whether there will be more biomass and more photosynthesis in response to more CO2, not whether individual trees grow more. The climate ske
829.
by nwah1 8y ago
Walkability, density, and population are all distinct features of an urban setting. You could have a highly zoned, non-walkable city that is very dense. You could have a lightly populated city that is not walkable because of sprawl (see: al
830.
by nwah1 8y ago
Energy efficiency gains mean that usually a new computer can pay for itself after a certain number of years or months, in terms of electricity savings. And fast hardware is key for performance in certain careers, such as software engineerin
831.
by nwah1 8y ago
CO2 negatively affects cognitive performance on tests https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1510037
832.
by nwah1 8y ago
Urbanization has been continuing apace, and in urban environments ridesharing apps generally can have a car at your doorstep in minutes. Sometimes as little as 1 minute. Generally not more than 7. When you factor in not needing to find park
833.
by nwah1 8y ago
Working on the issue of open source verified voting systems would help protect democracy, but the amount of actual coding needed is small compared to the amount of advocacy, lobbying, and marketing needed to get the word out.
834.
by nwah1 8y ago
Regardless of the merits of the platform, avoiding a monoculture itself has benefits such as encouraging open standards. Every competitor platform that has died has harmed the long term health of the ecosystem of open standards. Microsoft&#
835.
by nwah1 8y ago
Tesla's full vision of self-driving cars that form a ridesharing network would indeed dramatically reduce the number of cars. Most cars sit around unused, taking up space. When idle time for cars drops, then demand for cars will drop.
836.
by nwah1 8y ago
Actually, Shkreli got in trouble even though all of the plaintiffs had ultimately profited big time... but with some delay and period of uncertainty. Which shows that outcome is not all that matters, legally.
837.
by nwah1 8y ago
YCM includes various non-standardized static analyzers and such, and glues them together to be a swiss army knife. LSP is a standardized API that compilers can target, and that means there is no need for a middleware component that does wor
838.
by nwah1 8y ago
Yea, but LSP gives an API target for the compilers not just for the editors.
839.
by nwah1 8y ago
YouCompleteMe used fuzzy finding to create something like IntelliSense. LSP is an API that talks to compilers, and returns actual relevant data about the code you are working with, and in conjunction with the Debug Adapter Protocol allows t
840.
by nwah1 8y ago
The USA put sanctions on us and funds the opposition. Guess we better suspend all civil liberties and throw our country into poverty via mismanagement and corruption. How is it the US's fault that they hand over expropriated industries

More ›